I hit one in North Carolina. I can’t believe that the states haven’t been sued by the auto insurance company for incompetence. They put big restrictions on hunting and do nothing about the deer population and the auto insurance companies are getting slammed year after year with claims. It is a travesty that the states are ignoring this worsening problem.
My dad....at age 80....having lived his entire life in a rural area of Alabama....had a deer-truck accident about four years ago. All those years, probably over 1.5 million miles driven, and that was the first one.
I live in Germany. On the road between my village and the nearest urban city (over 100,000)....which is barely six miles....we have this safety sign that went up three years ago. They note that since 2010 (they keep a track of this), there’s been roughly 100 deer-vehicle accidents on this six-mile stretch over this time-period. I’d say well over ninety-percent are in the evening hours.
You’d think that people would ask questions and demand hunters get aggressive....but nothing occurs.
They really need to have bigger deer hunting seasons in areas where the deer population have caused a lot of damage to the local flora.
The biologist at the local forest preserve can tell you exactly how many it will support, and how it is over populated.
You better not even think about that, for the greenies will have court order before lunch.
Locally they do an annual deer count from a helicopter ($$$).
They demanded a spot on the helicopter that seats three, total. Pilot and two biologist that do this for a living, and maybe know what to look for.
After a struggle the county gave in.